Man, I've been running this week on zero sleep and lots of Mountain Dew. Not cool. Last night I worked on a paper until nearly 4 a.m. That was because of procrastination....and because I was having trouble organizing my thoughts...and because I didn't get as much done at work as I had planned to....and the library was open until 1 a.m. And has been all week. Yeah...that's super cool when you work Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. Yeah. Super cool. It's crazy though, because my paper ended up being 6 pages double spaced. It was a feature story for my journalism class, so I had a several interviews and whatnot, and the writing was different from a research paper (though really a news story IS a research paper), but it still only took me 2 hours to write. I remember back in Junior year of high school in my Advanced Comp. class we had to write this absolutely MASSIVE research paper. I had something like 150 notecards. And that ended up being a whole 7 pages. How far we've all come, huh?

Yesterday the Winter Term Editor-in-Chief for the campus newspaper talked to me after our class together about my column. She wants it to have a more promininent spot in the paper, so I need think up a name for it and then start writing weekly. I've only come up with one idea for a column name --if you don't follow, a column name is like "The Backfence," or "Off the Beaten Path," or "Mr. Fixit," etc-- and the idea I have is "The Soapbox." If you have any ideas, help me out. I'm staying away from anything like "Corey's Comments," or "Corey's Corner"....because those sound so juvenile and hokey, I can't stand it. I want one that says I'm making a statement about the college, or society. That I have 500 words to make an analysis on society and this is what I have to say. I have until Jan. 10th to come up with a title, so it's not a huge rush, but I will have to have it ready and my first column ready the monday after the 10th.

In other news, the 2YG has been planning this beek outing for tomorrow night down in Iowa City. It's my Christmas present and it's a surprise. I'm a little nervous because I don't like NOT being in control of a date. But whatever. I guess we'll see how that goes.